Many leading shipping operators specify mooring and tow ropes made with Dyneema® SK78. They’re stronger, more durable, light enough for one to handle, have limited rope backlash, and show extraordinary performance.

Ropes and slings with Dyneema® are proving a real game changer in offshore and onshore lifting. More precision, more strength, more efficiency, more safety. With ropes and slings with Dyneema® you can lift heavier net loads with the same crane.

Air cargo containers and pallet nets made with Dyneema® outperform conventional materials and give airlines an all-important edge in an ultra-competitive industry. They're light, durable, safe, and easy-to-handle.

For military and law enforcement officers in high-risk environments, armor made with Dyneema® technologies is raising the protection benchmark. It provides maximum protection in a lighter, flexible solution that enhances comfort, mobility, and efficiency.

Demand for fish is expected to double in the coming 50 years. Ropes and nets made with Dyneema® enable more sustainable fishing techniques that optimize catch and production, save money, and are sustainable.

Ropes and slings made with Dyneema® are helping offshore operators go deeper and further. Stronger, lighter, thinner ropes make it possible to open up new fields while reducing operational risks and costs.

Employing high-strength, lightweight synthetic ropes made with Dyneema® is one of the fastest ways to increase productivity, increase safety, and reduce operating costs in today's competitive mining industry.

DSM Dyneema is a science-driven business that focuses on innovation for real-world applications. Our goal is to bring the advantages of Dyneema® UHMwPE fiber to every industry, product and application.

Dyneema® is respected as the premium brand for Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMwPE), and we manufacture and sell products in several forms including fiber, tape and uni-directional (UD) sheets.

Martin Vlasblom, Dyneema® Engineer

Applied Research Manager

" I like to act in the field of product application and development, understanding failure and maximizing use."

What drives me

I like to work on complex issues and developments, reducing them to understandable manageable pieces that can be solved. My everyday challenge is to share our knowledge on the behavior and suitability of Dyneema® fiber types, supporting direct and indirect customers in their application development issues. Above that, it is exciting to see that our own developed predictive model is capable to describe accurately the material creep behavior in the application’s real use environment.

Eureka moment

For long time UHMWPE fibers were known for their sensitivity to static loads causing it to elongate over time, a phenomenon also known as creep. While characterizing some research fiber types based on alternative UHMWPE on the deformation under constant load, I realized that with one of these fibers, that showed extreme low creep deformations, permanent offshore mooring applications with Dyneema® would become within reach. Years after this moment, in 2012, we introduced it in the market as Dyneema® DM20 MaxTechnology fiber. It illustrates that extensive research at DSM Dyneema lead to an improvement of a fiber property that for long time was believed not to be possible on industrial scale.